Portable Calibre 7.20.0 Multilingual
Effortlessly keep your e-book library thoroughly organized with the help of this efficient and straightforward software solution. Calibre Portable is a powerful and easy to use e-book manager. Users say it’s outstanding and a must-have. It’ll allow you to do nearly everything and it takes things a step beyond normal e-book software.
It’s also completely free and open source and great for both casual users and computer experts. It is free, open source and cross-platform in design and works on Linux, OSX and Windows. Calibre is meant to be a complete e-library solution and thus includes, library management, format conversion, news feeds to ebook conversion as well as e-book reader sync features.
One of the most significant features of Calibre Portable is its ability to handle a wide variety of e-book formats. The software supports the most common formats like EPUB, MOBI, and PDF, as well as some less commonly used formats such as AZW, LRF, and PDB. This means that whether you have purchased your e-books from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or any other online bookstore, Calibre can manage them all.
In terms of organizing your e-book library, Calibre Portable has a range of capabilities. You can add tags, comments, ratings, and even custom metadata to each book. This helps you to quickly find the books you want to read based on different criteria such as genre, author, publication date, or any other specific information you choose to add.
Calibre’s conversion feature is one of its biggest strengths. With just a few clicks, you can convert your e-books into different formats, making it easy to read them on different devices. For example, if you have an EPUB file but want to read it on a Kindle device, you can easily convert it to MOBI format using Calibre. Similarly, if you have a PDF file that you want to read on your smartphone, you can convert it to EPUB format for easier reading.
Another useful feature of Calibre is its ability to download news articles and convert them into e-book format. This means that you can keep up with your favorite news sources without having to visit their websites every day. Calibre can automatically download articles from websites like The New York Times, The Guardian, and BBC News and convert them into an e-book format for easy reading.
Calibre is also a great tool for authors and publishers. You can use it to create your own e-books in various formats, including EPUB, MOBI, and PDF. The software includes a built-in editor that allows you to add images, hyperlinks, and other interactive elements to your e-book. Once your e-book is ready, you can use Calibre to upload it to online stores like Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing or Apple iBooks.
Calibre’s user interface is simple and easy to navigate. The main screen displays all of your e-books in a list view, allowing you to quickly browse through them. You can also switch to a cover view if you prefer to see book covers instead. The software’s search function is powerful and allows you to find books based on various criteria like title, author, tags, and even custom metadata fields.
In terms of customization, Calibre has a range of options. You can change the font size, font type, and line spacing to make reading more comfortable. There are also different reading modes such as day mode and night mode, which adjust the background color and text color to reduce eye strain.
Overall, Calibre Portable is an essential tool for anyone who loves to read e-books. Its ability to handle multiple formats, organize e-books, and convert them into different formats makes it a must-have for any e-book enthusiast. Whether you have a large collection of e-books or just a few, Calibre will help you manage them all with ease.
Calibre Portable Release Notes:
New features
- PDF Input: Automatic header/footer detection and removal
A new, dedicated PDF Input engine for calibre that implements automatic detection of headers and footers based on document analysis. The new engine is the default to go back to using the old engine, select it in the PDF Input section of the Conversion dialog.
- Read Aloud: Allow configuring an extra pause at the end of every sentence when using the Piper TTS engine
- PDF Output: Add _WIDTH_PIXELS_ and _HEIGHT_PIXELS_ variables to know the width and height of the header/footer area in templates
- Windows: Use calibre’s bundled SSL certificates instead of the system certificate store by default
Can be turned off via CALIBRE_USE_SYSTEM_CERTIFICATES=1 env var
- Trim image tool: Add a control to adjust aspect ratio
- Kobo driver: Add support for the new firmware used by the Tolino Shine 5
Bug fixes
- Fix a regression in previous release that broke copying of book to another library if the books author does not exist in the destination database
- Read aloud: Piper backend: Fix not working with voices whose names have non-ASCII characters on Windows.
- Content server: Fix book with non-ASCII filenames not downloading in the Kindle browser when using the /mobile view
- Content server: Fix embedding the server HTML inside a third party iframe causing an error
New news sources
- NYT Magazine by unkn0wn
- RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland by epubli
Improved news sources
- The Wire
- Nikkei Asia Magazine
- Swarajya
- Mainichi
- Nautilus
- National Geographic
- Science Journal
- Times Literary Supplement
- Saechsische Zeitung
- India Today
- Scientific American
